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About the Team
The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly team of around 30 outstanding analysts and policy makers located across London and Darlington offices. We seek to bring together an understanding and advise on policy development related to households’ living standards, distributional analysis across different financial and demographic characteristics, and labour market outcomes. The work is at the centre of the government’s priorities to boost growth and overcome obstacles to opportunity.
We analyse how tax, welfare and public service spending decisions affect households, and how those impacts differ across income groups, household types and people with protected characteristics. We use this evidence to advise Ministers and senior officials across a wide range of high-profile policy areas.
Whilst our approach on tax and welfare closely mirrors respected think tanks such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies, we also model the impacts of public services, such as NHS, schools and social care spending. This broader approach means we can consider a much wider range of policies that provide support to the poorest and most vulnerable families. Alongside this, we lead HMT’s analytical approach to equalities, helping to ensure that emerging policies are assessed...